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[K.D.]

I just started Salman Rushdie's Midnight's Children. Last year, I read and hated his The Satanic Verses. I read it first because of the controversies it created. Looking back, it could be a wrong move because my friends are saying that his other books are a lot better. I hope I will like him this time with his Booker Prize winner, Midnight's Children.

[Katherine]

I just started Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert.

[Kristel]

I just started The Killer Inside Me by Jim Thompson. I am listening to the audio of A Confederacy of Dunces by Toole and I am also reading The 13 Clocks by James Thurber, what a really nice book!

[El]

Along with Lucky Jim (I'm about halfway through), I just started Infinite Jest as well. I'm a whopping 1% through. :)

[Kristi]

Still working on Under the Net, but I also started Anna Karenina for another group.

[Janet]

Just started She by H. Rider Haggard. I enjoyed his King Solomon's Mines, so I'm optimistic. I also love her entire name... She Who Must Be Obeyed.

[Charity]

Just started She by H. Rider Haggard. I enjoyed his King Solomon's Mines, so I'm optimistic. I also love her entire name... She Who Must Be Obeyed.

Hey, that's my name! :)

[Regine]

K.D. wrote: "I just started Salman Rushdie's Midnight's Children. Last year, I read and hated his The Satanic Verses. I read it first because of the controversies it created. Looking back, it could be a wrong m..."

I loved this book!

I'm currently reading A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemmingway. I'm realling enjoying it so far

[Gini]

Just started The Picture of Dorian Gray. Saw the movie years ago, so it's not going to be a surprise, but I love Wilde's prose!

[Nazanin]

I'v just read stranger by Alber Camus for second time.i did it almost 5 years ago.that was delisious again. i do love this book

[Joselito Honestly]

THE RECOGNITIONS by William Gaddis and THE 120 DAYS OF SODOM by Marquis de Sade. May take a long while to finish these.

[Judith]

John Barth's "The Floating Opera"

[[deleted user]]

Just joined the group! I'm just making a dent in The House of Mirth and enjoying it way, way more than I thought I would.

[El]

Welcome, Bethany. House of Mirth is one of my all-time favorites. I'm glad you're enjoying it!

[Kristen]

The Invisible Man

[Karina]

Under the Net, hope it's a good one!

[Darcy]

I just started On the Road by Jack Kerouac.

[Shovelmonkey1]

Just started Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh and am already a third of the way through and loving it! (NB Much better than Vile Bodies if anyone is put off Waugh after reading that one)

[Asa]

Started Ageyev's Novel with Cocaine a few days ago. Very interesting.

[Lauli]

50 pages into Doctor Zhivago. Lots of characters! It will be a memory challenge just to remember who is who.

[Chel]

I started The Good Soldier Svejk by the Czech author Jaroslav Hasek. It is very good and funny.

[Becky]

Get Shorty by Elmore Leonard -- needed a "summer" read

[Sissy]

Remains of the Day - Ishiguro. Excited to read my first Ishiguro!

[Shovelmonkey1]

Sissy wrote: "Remains of the Day - Ishiguro. Excited to read my first Ishiguro!"

"Never let me go" by Ishiguro is excellent too!

[Sissy]

Shovelmonkey1 wrote: "Sissy wrote: "Remains of the Day - Ishiguro. Excited to read my first Ishiguro!"

"Never let me go" by Ishiguro is excellent too!"

I have it on hold at the library - very excited for it to come in. Have already seen the previews for the new film and I am intrigued.

[Tinkwelborn]

Bethany wrote: "Just joined the group! I'm just making a dent in The House of Mirth and enjoying it way, way more than I thought I would."

Edith Wharton & Henry James are of similar ilk....just in case.

[Shovelmonkey1]

Sissy wrote: "Shovelmonkey1 wrote: "Sissy wrote: "Remains of the Day - Ishiguro. Excited to read my first Ishiguro!"

"Never let me go" by Ishiguro is excellent too!"

I have it on hold at the library - very..."
I didn't know it was being made into a film!? I'll have to look out for that one, thanks.

[El]

I much prefer Wharton over James. I know they were friends and contemporaries but Edith's writing far exceeds Henry's.

[Sissy]

Shovelmonkey1 wrote: I didn't know it was being made into a film!? I'll have to look out for that one, thanks.

Yes - being released in September or October I believe? Keira Knightingly, Carey Mulligan and the new Spiderman [sorry - don't remember his name:] are the cast.

[[deleted user]]

Halfway through House of Mirth, still enjoying it. Also started on Dubliners, since I wanted some short stories to plow through.

[Shovelmonkey1]

Sissy wrote: "Shovelmonkey1 wrote: I didn't know it was being made into a film!? I'll have to look out for that one, thanks.

Yes - being released in September or October I believe? Keira Knightingly, Carey Mu..."

Thanks - that's good to know. Although I have to say as a general rule I find Knightley to be one of the most annoying people ever as she is yet to pull off more than one facial expression in a film.

[ayanami]

Started Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? yesterday and really liking it so far!

[Sissy]

Shovelmonkey1 wrote: "Thanks - that's good to know. Although I have to say as a general rule I find Knightley to be one of the most annoying people ever as she is yet to pull off more than one facial expression in a film.

LOL! As long as its a good film (Atonement, Pirates) I think she will be less aggravating.

[Pam]

The Human Stain by Philip Roth. I'm 70 pages in and terribly bored. It has to get better soon right?

[southpaw285]

The French Lieutenant's Woman by John Fowles

[Judith]

Chel wrote: "I started The Good Soldier Svejk by the Czech author Jaroslav Hasek. It is very good and funny."

Chel, I just finished this one. I liked it also, but found myself skipping through it a bit and wishing it were shorter. Fun though!

[Sissy]

Pam wrote: "The Human Stain by Philip Roth. I'm 70 pages in and terribly bored. It has to get better soon right?"

No, it doesn't. =) Sorry! LOL

[Judith]

Shovelmonkey1 wrote: "Just started Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh and am already a third of the way through and loving it! (NB Much better than Vile Bodies if anyone is put off Waugh after reading that one)"

"Brideshead Revisited" is my favorite Waugh novel, though I've liked all of them. You're right that "Vile Bodies" is very different from "Brideshead" though -- much deeper and historical with more multi-layered characters.

[Deanne]

Just started Absalom, Absalom!. So far found it easier to read than The Sound And The Fury.

[Judith]

"Slow Man" J.M. Coetzee

Oh dear, this one is going to be a real downer, isn't it?

[Judith]

Amanda wrote: "I just started the first book in Remembrance of Things Past by Proust. Here we go. DEEP BREATH."

Good luck! I read "Swann's Way", but have never gotten back to the other volumns. Plan to one day though...

[Anthony]

Pam wrote: "The Human Stain by Philip Roth. I'm 70 pages in and terribly bored. It has to get better soon right?"

Eh, I didn't find it to be as good as I was led to believe. I thought "The Plot Against America" was better.

[Jessica]

I started trying to read Sound and Fury in junior high school. Took me six years and two or three tries to "get it", but really liked it once I was old enough.


Deanne wrote: "Just started Absalom, Absalom!. So far found it easier to read than The Sound And The Fury."

[anothercookiecrumbles]

100 pages into The Master and Margarita.

[P.]

The Good Soldier by ford madox ford. I can't believe how closely Ford mimics the feminine thinking process. This reads like a less chaotic version of a Virginia Woolf work.

You don't have to do too much brain-work to get the drift of what's going on... The Ashburnhams infuriate me.

[Deanne]

Just started The Heat of the Day by Bowen, I've enjoyed her other books so I'm hoping it's a good sign.
Her description of life in London during WW2 is very interesting. My family are from further north in places that weren't so badly hit by the bombing. Though I've sat in a car on the A21 in a traffic jam waiting for the bomb disposal unit to diffuse an unexploded bomb dropped by a german plane in the 40's. They turn up occasionally during building work.

[K.D.]

I just started William Faulkner's The Sound and the Fury. This is my 2nd by him so I think I will like it.

[Shana]

I'm just starting The Maias by Eca de Queiros, which I'm anticipating loving, as a great fan of Trollope, Dickens, and other authors who write about the sweep of society and history in an astute, culturally rooted, and timeless way. I'd love to hear from others who've read this book.

I'm enjoying the comments on this list about other books that I've loved and hated. Thanks!

[Candace]

Howard's End by Forster.

[Emma]

I'm picking Legend up again and just a few more pages have made all the difference for me. I'm really excited to read it now. It's funny to go from White Noise to this because they both have a fear of death theme.